Thread: Too many video games = lousy lucid dreams?

Well, this obviously is not the case for everyone; just to make that clear.

However I have noticed this from personal experience and wonder if anyone else may remember the same troubles...

Last night once again my lucid dream resembled DOOM, not as in I was killing caca demons with a shotgun, but the fact that the textures looked like 8-bit graphics from an old video game. Maybe this has nothing to do with the amount of games I play, or the fact that I am a game design student as well.... but what the hell?

Maybe my brain needs a new video card...

Any suggestions or opinions would be appreciated!

Funny. One of the first dreams that I recorded in my DJ had 8-bit graphics. It was like one of the first Zelda games.

Hmm. Actually, I think it was yesterday, I had a dream where I was in something that seemed very much like GTA San Andreas, I was driving a fire fighter kindof car, using random things as ramps. I remember it looked like GTA down to the detail that the world would 'pop' up when going at high speeds, because the game had to load.

I think it's just because the brain thinks it's in the game, and thus makes the same graphic. But yeah, pretty annoying. But I can't imagine having a lucid dream like that :S

One time after playing an unhealthy amount of Counter Strike:Source, like 7-8 hours, i had dreams all night where i was in CS. It was really tedious and i do not like dreaming about video games. Although I was getting some amazing head shots.

I've always wanted to know that. If it's a dream that uses a game environment, and when you turn the corner, what would your mind do? Continue the schema and create hallways with that same 'game' type feel, or make a real hallway?

Dreams are made of what you experience throughout the day. Sometimes I can waste an entire game playing video games and if that's all I do, that's what my dreams will be about.

I would have to agree that too many video games do equal bad lucid dreams. For instance, I got a copy of NHL 07 for my PSP, and have been playing it obsessively for the past week. Last night, when I had a long lucid dream, I could have done anything, but instead, I surfed the net for the whole time I was in the dream. I feel like I wasted a huge opportunity. Maybe my technology obsession carried over into my dream.

Yeah I also have many video game dreams, it's cool sometimes but pretty annoying most of the time. I'd rather have a real life dream.

Try to meditate before going to sleep. That would erase the negative effets of videogames.

I had a dream last night that I was having a lucid dream while in a game of Halo 2...but I have a NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT graphics card..lol....and I play Halo 2 A LOT!!!

Halo 3 has destroyed many of my dreams. I go to bed with the images running through my mind. My dreams are the same way, just random Halo play that has no significance to anything. I get so pissed in the morning when all I remeber experiancing is Halo. I never become lucid in a Halo dream and I rarely ever have any control.
I'm getting more pissed just thinking about it now.

Originally Posted by apfire26

Halo 3 has destroyed many of my dreams. I go to bed with the images running through my mind. My dreams are the same way, just random Halo play that has no significance to anything. I get so pissed in the morning when all I remeber experiancing is Halo. I never become lucid in a Halo dream and I rarely ever have any control.
I'm getting more pissed just thinking about it now.

haha relax... and play some old school games... they do great for the mind... and soul... LOL

I do have dreams about games I have played. but I had this on halo dream where I was kicking butt as the master chief

One dream i had like 3days ago had with doom to do
I was in this room with hurted me and i remember i got this Doom view that myself got hurted you know with the character picture at the bar

I had a dream about Crysis today, it was totally different than the game though, much cooler infact.

I spent four or so days playing tetris for about 2-3 hours apiece. I ended up dreaming about tetris, and I would flit through solutions to tetris problems.

Lamest dreams - EVAAR.

Hah! That sucks! I have a similar experience. Sometimes stuff turns cartonish, or the texture of grass morphs from individual blades to solid green carpet. To fix this, get out in the real world more. Better graphics, less lag.

But videogames can be a good influence, too. Like riding the air boat from Half Life 2 around town last night. In the few lucid dreams that start as videogames, the scene either dissapates, or I pull my vision away from the screen. There are, of course, less cool VG dreams, such as collecting purple coins from Super Mario Galaxy (also from last night!).

I play lots of video games, but the "graphics", as it were, are never low quality in my LDs. They're usually very lifelike.

After last night I'm even more convinced that video game dreams are amazing. I had a fallout 3 themed one and the only bad part about it, was that I woke up knowing that the game couldnt be as good as what I dreamt

I played all the way through Portal in one sitting today... hoping for similarly themed dream!

Oh, I would LOVE to dream a Wind Waker-style or Okami-style dream... Wouldn't that be wonderful? I always thought those were very beautiful games... Meeting Toon Link is going to be one of my lucid goals when I start LD'ing xD

Originally Posted by Vanota

I played all the way through Portal in one sitting today... hoping for similarly themed dream!

I already get disorientated when I jump through portals in the game, there's no way I could properly use portals in my dream...

I remember one dream in which I couldn't see very far, so I increased the view distance.

i had recently a few dreams that had to do with Metal Gear Solid. pretty sick game except for the fact that i didnt have lucidy but since i have been having it commonly, i try to make it a dream sign. same with school although i had a dream that metal gears were attacking my school and i was behind the incident secretly.

a lucid dream about GTA 4 would be nice

I play alot of video games but rarely have dreams based on them, however I do happen to have dreams with game elements in them.

I do agree that video games can make lucid dreaming harder. It's much harder for me to recognize whats fake or not from time to time because of a video game element within my dream.

I once dreamt about TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. I entered the "MapMaker" mode, which is a very flexible editor, but not extremely (i.e. no diagnal surfaces, allies, bumpy terrain, etc.) and I dreamt I found a way to do all that by inputing a code somewhere (in a non-existant text box in the MapMaker) that unlocks such tiles. When I woke I was pissed off.